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New Books in Diplomatic History

Interviews with scholars of diplomacy, international relations, and geopolitics about their new book

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Total: 987

Larrie Ferreiro, “Brothers at Arms: Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It” (Knopf, 2016)

2016/12/2

Was the War for American Independence really about American independence? It depends on who you ask.

William Blum, “America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy – the Truth About US Foreign Policy and Everything Else” (Zed Books, 2013)

2016/7/12

Since World War II, the United States has repeatedly posited itself as a defender of democracy, usin

Lincoln A. Mitchell, “The Democracy Promotion Paradox” (Brookings Institution Press, 2015)

2016/5/13

In book his new book The Democracy Promotion Paradox (Brookings Institution Press, 2015), Lincoln A.

Ingrid Carlberg, “Raoul Wallenberg: The Biography” (MacLehose Press, 2016)

2016/5/4

What makes a person? What makes an act heroic? And what determines a person’s fate? These are the qu

John Bew, “Realpolitik: A History” (Oxford UP, 2015)

2016/4/30

Since its coinage in mid-19th century Germany, Realpolitik has proven both elusive and protean. To s

Michael Goebel, “Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

2016/4/28

Michael Goebel‘s Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism (

Michael L. Oberg, “Peacemakers: The Iroquois, the United States, and the Treaty of Canandaigua, 1794” (Oxford UP, 2015)

2015/11/10

On November 11, 2015, leaders and citizens of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy–Senec

Vicken Cheterian, "Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks, and a Century of Genocide" (Oxford UP, 2015)

2015/10/29

The assassination of the Armenian-Turkish activist Hrant Dink in 2007 raised uncomfortable questions

Clare Croft, “Dancers as Diplomats: American Choreography in Cultural Exchange” (Oxford UP, 2015)

2015/10/27

What’s missing from our understanding of the role of dancers in the context of American Cultural Dip

Tabetha Ewing, “Rumor, Diplomacy, and War in Enlightenment Paris” (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2014)

2015/8/31

Tabetha Ewing‘s Rumor, Diplomacy and War in Enlightenment Paris (Oxford University Studies in the En

William LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh, “Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana” (UNC Press, 2014)

2015/7/24

In December 2014, Cuba and the United States announced their renewed efforts to normalize relations.

Greg Barnhisel, “Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy” (Columbia UP, 2015)

2015/6/2

Greg Barnhisel‘s new book, Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy (Co

James D. Boys, “Clinton’s Grand Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy in a Post-Cold War World” (Bloomsbury, 2015)

2015/5/25

How should we look back at President Bill Clinton’s foreign policy legacy? As muddled? Visionary? Or

David Meren, “With Friends Like These: Entangled Nationalisms in the Canada-Quebec-France Triangle, 1944-1970” (University of British Columbia Press, 2014)

2015/5/5

In 1967, French President Charles de Gaulle cried out “Vive le Quebec libre!” from the balcony of Mo